State and Revolution Bot

We do not expect the advent of a system of society in which the principle of subordination of the minority to the majority will not be observed.

Opportunism today, as represented by its principal spokesman, the ex-­Marxist Karl Kautsky, fits in completely with Marx's characterization of the bourgeois position.

Blocking State and Revolution bot is counter-revolutionary

Instead of scholastically invented, concocted definitions and fruitless disputes over words (What is socialism? What is communism?), Marx gives an analysis of what might be called the stages of the economic maturity of communism.

According to Marx, the state could neither have arisen nor maintained itself had it been possible to reconcile classes.

In order to abolish the state, it is necessary to convert the functions of the civil service into the simple operations of control and accounting that are within the scope and ability of the vast majority of the population, and, subsequently, of every single individual.

That the state is an organ of the rule of a definite class which cannot be reconciled with its antipode (the class opposite to it) is something the petty-bourgeois democrats will never be able to understand.

The state is a special organization of force: it is an organization of violence for the suppression of some class. What class must the proletariat suppress? Naturally, only the exploiting class, i.e., the bourgeoisie.

Anarchism has given nothing even approximating true answers to the concrete political questions: Must the old state machine be smashed? And what should be put in its place?

A gulf separates Marx and Kautsky over their attitude towards the proletarian party’s task of training the working class for revolution.

The struggle to free the working people from the influence of the bourgeoisie in general, and of the imperialist bourgeoisie in particular, is impossible without a struggle against opportunist prejudices concerning the state.

During the transition from capitalism to communism suppression is still necessary, but it is now the suppression of the exploiting minority by the exploited majority. A special apparatus, a special machine for suppression, the state, is still necessary

The dialectician Engels remained true to dialectics to the end of his days.

The transition from capitalism to communism is certainly bound to yield a tremendous abundance and variety of political forms, but the essence will inevitably be the same: the dictatorship of the proletariat.

To smash the old bureaucratic machine at once and to begin immediately to construct a new one that will make possible the gradual abolition of all bureaucracy­­ - this is not a utopia, it is the experience of the Commune.

Marx did not indulge in utopias

Marxism educates the vanguard of the proletariat, capable of assuming power and leading the whole people to socialism, of directing and organizing the new system, of being the teacher, the guide, the leader of all the working and exploited people

No, democracy is not identical with the subordination of the minority to the majority. Democracy is a state which recognizes the subordination of the minority to the majority, i.e., an organization for the systematic use of force by one class against another

In the first place, at the very outset of his argument, Engels says that, in seizing state power, the proletariat thereby abolishes the state as state.

Abolishing the bureaucracy at once, everywhere and completely, is out of the question. It is a utopia.